Motivational Quotes

Children

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

- Lois McMaster Bujold

Best Quotes about Children

Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

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The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

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Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

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I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

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Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

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When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

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If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

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Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

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Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

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Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

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Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

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Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

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You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

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Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

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What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

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There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

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I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

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A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

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Lois McMaster Bujold

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The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

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It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires.

Parker, Dorothy

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A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!